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Hello All,

As you may be aware, the United Nations Global Compact has established a global Task Force (of which I am a member) to create a set of Principles for Responsible Business (Management...the name is still under some debate) Education, which will be presented at the Global Compact Leaders Summit in Geneva in July 2007, at which more than a 1000 executives, many of them CEOs, are expected.  (Information on the UN Global Compact, a set of ten principles based on globally agreed documents, to which businesses and other institutions sign on, can be found at www.unglobalcompact.org).  More than 3000 businesses and other organizations have already signed the Global Compact, which is now the world's leading corporate citizenship initiative. 

Based on the success of the Global Compact (and a related set of Principles for Responsible Investment, signed in 2006 by investors holding assets of over $2 trillion), the UNGC will be launching these principles for business schools in July.  In the interest of creating an open process, the UNGC has created a "wiki" to which anyone who is interested in the Principles for Responsible Business Education can contribute. 

I am writing to ask you to personally add your input to the Wiki and also to share information about how to do so with both faculty and students at your schools and in other disciplines. 

To access the Wiki, go to http://unprbe.pbwiki.com and use the following password:  responsibleeducation.  Once you sign in, you can read the current draft and make any suggestions that you like.

Best regards to all,

Sandra

<st1:personname w:st="on">Sandra Waddock</st1:personname>, Professor of Management

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